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CdRomPeripheral : HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8481B atapi Port 1 ID 1 DMA: Off

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Physical memory : 254MB (260912kB)
Free physical memory: 75MB (76948kB)
Memory in use : 70 %

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Originally posted by Rotary:

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yes your external drive doesnt use DMA only internal drives, so dont worry on DMA for that drive

although these should have DMA enabled so theres a problem there!
=== Scsi-Device-Map ===
DiskPeripheral : WDC WD1200BB-53CAA1 atapi Port 0 ID 0 DMA: Off
CdRomPeripheral : HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8481B atapi Port 1 ID 1 DMA: Off

your western digital hard drive needs dma enabled and could be part the problem? as speed transfer to your external drive will be reduced when writing to dvdr.
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this is for RAM not hard drive Random Access Memory (like a buffer) what programs need to use and empty on use
Physical memory : 254MB (260912kB)
Free physical memory: 75MB (76948kB)
Memory in use : 70 %

254 is very low, windows xp can use all that leaving nothing for anything else as we almost see here...

but as you say you used to write dvdr ok, ok lets look further into this now, so you have the same setup as before but something has changed here now we know dvdr brand has changed so thats a factor and getting errors off the new brand could cause DMA to go to PIO mode (about 6 consecutive errors changes dma to pio mode)

get that DMA on with the HD

go to device manager and uninstall the the ide controllers and reboot pc then go back to same location and check your drives are in DMA (forget the dvd-rw burner, just HD + cd-rw)

are all the files for burning on your hd already so no ripping involved or convertion involved either?
all you need is to burn what you already have on hard drive to dvdr?

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